Agassiz Museum: the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard University. It is popularly called the Agassiz Museum in honor of the great naturalist Louis Agassiz, who founded it.
See Sarah K. Bolton’s “Famous Men of Science.”
Arnold Arboretum: is near the western edge of Boston; one of the most celebrated gardens of trees in the world.
Through the heaven’s wide pathless way: from “Il Penseroso,” by Milton.
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Swales: wet, grassy, or even bushy, meadows.
CHAPTER VI
FOR THE PUPIL
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The tree-toad: (Hyla versicolor); he is said by country people to prophesy rain.
pennyroyal: is one of the small aromatic mints.
Wilson Flagg: one of our earliest outdoor writers. Look up his life in any American biographical dictionary.
CHAPTER VII
TO THE TEACHER
For a fuller account of this Wild Bird Reservation see the chapter in “Where Rolls the Oregon,” called “Three-Arch Rocks Reservation.” Bring out in your reading the point I wished to make, namely that these great reservations of State and Federal Government are not only to preserve bird and animal life, but also to preserve nature—a portion of the earth—wild and primitive and thrilling, against the constant encroachments of civilization. Interest your pupils in their own local parks, preserves, etc., and if they have farms or wood-lots, have them post them and set them aside as their personal sanctuaries for wild life.